Detroit City Council honored the Chauncy Glover Project with a resolution. (CGP/Facebook)

What can I do to become a part of the solution? he wondered.”And He led me to go back into Martin Luther King high school and I talked with the teachers there, the Principle, and I identified young men in that school who were deciding am I going to go left or am I going to go right – so I adopted them and they became the first class of the Chauncy Glover Project.”

Glover put in the start-up money for the Chauncy Glover Project – to the tune of $10,000.

The payoff is in the future successful lives of the young men he helps guide through high school and create opportunities with mentors.

The Alabama native looks to a number of giants in Black History for inspiration including some in his own family.

“We found out that I had a great, great-uncle who marched in Selma, (Alabama ) so it’s people in my family … my grandfather, my uncles and my dad, these are men, Southerners, southern gentleman, who I watched work, and they told me … if you want to have something in life, you’ve got to work.”

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